Golden book

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Johann Maria Farina (right) signs the city of Cologne's Golden Book . Lord Mayor Fritz Schramma (left).
Golden Book of the City of Hamburg
Entry in the Golden Book of the City of Cologne

A golden book is a book used in municipalities, towns and districts, in which guests of honor can sign during a visit. The designation is symbolic, but also to be understood literally in relation to the gold cut of the pages and gilding on the cover.

Entry in the Golden Book of the Limburg-Weilburg district - Franz-Josef Sehr (left) with District Administrator Manfred Michel

Often the books heavy, leather-bound tomes . The guests' entries are prepared by calligraphers by writing the name of the guest, the date and the circumstances of the visit on a cover sheet.

origin

Since the Middle Ages, registers of nobility in Italian cities and states have been referred to as the “Golden Book” ( Libro d'Oro ) . The best known is the directory of the Venetian nobilhòmini .

Golden Book of the City of Braunschweig

The 1st Golden Book of the city of Braunschweig, kept from 1926 to 1942. In the center the coat of arms of the city of Braunschweig with the stylized Braunschweig lion .

The Golden Book of the City of Braunschweig was created in 1926 on the occasion of the visit of the second Reich President of the Weimar Republic , Paul von Hindenburg , who was the first to sign on October 15, 1926. It was continued until 1942. Volume 2 ran from 1951 to 1995, and volume 3 has been in use ever since. The first two volumes are kept in the Braunschweig city archive.

Golden Book of the City of Hamburg

The City of Hamburg's Golden Book is not a book in the true sense of the word. It is just a cassette that contains individual loose pages made of handmade paper. The cassette was made in the arts and crafts workshop of Georg Hulbe (1851–1917). The Hamburg state coat of arms can be found on the front cover, including the motto “God with us” . The corners consist of hand-driven and gold-plated silver fittings , the back cover bears the German imperial eagle. The leather cut work was donated by the family of the then mayor Carl Friedrich Petersen for the inauguration of the town hall in 1897.

Golden Book of the City of Hanover

The Golden Book of the Lower Saxony state capital was opened by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1913 on the occasion of the inauguration of the New Town Hall . It is now available in several volumes.

Steel book of the city of Essen

The city of Essen is a specialty . It has had a “steel book” as its official guest book since 1934, which made a more appropriate impression due to Essen's fame as a steel location . Since the Krupp steel cover only shows the city arms and no National Socialist symbols, the steel book was also used in the Federal Republic of Germany. Only the old pages were removed and transferred to the city archive.

Golden Book of the City of Frankfurt am Main

Golden Book of Magdeburg

Web links

Commons : Golden Book  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Schultz: The Academy of Youth Leadership of the Hitler Youth in Braunschweig. (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke. Series A, Volume 15 / The whole series, Volume 55), Waisenhaus Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Braunschweig 1978, ISBN 3-87884-011-X , p. 149, FN 41.
  2. ^ Henning Steinführer (Ed.): The holdings of the Braunschweig city archive. (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke Volume 56/115), Appelhans, Braunschweig 2018, ISBN 978-3-944939-33-9 , p. 118.
  3. ↑ The Golden Book. Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, accessed on October 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Klaus Mlynek : Golden Book. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 225.
  5. ↑ Dieter Brosius : 1913. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 149
  6. ↑ The historical “Steel Book” of the city of Essen information page on the city of Essen's website, accessed on June 2, 2014